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From: lmg@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (lawrence.m.geary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: vi editor
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Date: 26 May 89 15:34:05 GMT
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In article <8681@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall) writes:
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>   There are other considerations. I have a REAL editor. The bloody
>thing takes about 45 seconds to load (from a hard drive) and get itself
>initialized. If I want to change one word in a small file, it takes much
>longer to pull up the editor than it does to make the change. Whereas VI
>loads in about five seconds and provides enough functionality to make
>small changes like so.

FIVE SECONDS? How can you stand to wait that long?
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